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Take a moment and consider the quest to find the fastest multiplication algorithm. For millennia, we used the classical method. (Shift and add. 3 lines of pseudo code)

Then, along came Fast Fourier Transform based algorithms.




The Karatsuba algorithm was found before Schönhage-Strassen.




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